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The Linux 3.13 Kernel Is A Must-Have For AMD RadeonSI Users

01-18-2014, 07:40 PM

Phoronix: The Linux 3.13 Kernel Is A Must-Have For AMD RadeonSI Users

The Linux 3.13 kernel that will be released in the very near future is very worth the upgrade if you are a RadeonSI user -- in particular, the Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs and newer on the Gallium3D Linux graphics driver -- but other open-source graphics driver users as well may also see nice improvements in the new kernel release. Here's some benchmarks showing off the gains found with the Linux 3.13 kernel for Radeon HD and R9 graphics cards.

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On a small note: the fix for enabling all RadeonSI render backends also made it to kernel 3.12.7, which version were you using in your test? On my HD7850 I didn't notice any improvements, but maybe I wasn't affected by it in the first place.